Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Mental Health DailyHogg Foundation for Mental Health

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is pleased to announce the first-ever PeerFest, which takes place April 25–28, 2016 in Corpus Christi, TX. The event is inspired by Alternatives, an annual national conference created by and for persons with lived mental health experience.

In an unprecedented move, Cervantes students are suing the Compton Unified School District, arguing that the trauma they have faced makes it difficult to learn and demanding that the district offer them additional support, in much the same way schools must accommodate students with autism, dyslexia and other disabilities.

But if your child is someone who not just differs from you, but shatters one of the fundamental tenets of our culture---that a child is born either a boy or a girl and will stay that way---parenting can be shot through with a particular depth of bewilderment, loss, fear, and loneliness.

More than 380 men and women statewide are waiting in county lockups, sometimes for months on end, because state mental health facilities don’t have enough beds to provide treatment for inmates declared incompetent to stand trial.

To further college students’ education about suicide prevention and mental health resources, The University of Texas at Austin led a statewide task force to create an educational video on suicide prevention. The video is available for use by all colleges and universities in Texas.

The Frisco mother who was found dead last month in her SUV with her three children alive by her side killed herself, officials said Thursday. Christine Thi Woo’s cause of death was suicide through overdose, the Collin County medical examiner determined.

The United States needs a federally led, far-reaching strategy to reduce the continuing stigma associated with mental health disorders and substance use disorders, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).

A sergeant who retired while under investigation for antagonizing a mentally ill inmate at the state-run Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility implied the interaction was all a joke and said the use of profanity by guards wasn't unusual, according to newly released Department of Corrections records.

The report by Avalere Health examined how silver-level plans handled 20 classes of medications that are used to treat complex and expensive diseases such as HIV, cancer, hepatitis C and bipolar disorder.

From Van Gogh to Poe, history is littered with famous cases of creative geniuses plagued by inner turmoil. But going beyond the anecdotal, are creative people really more prone to mental health difficulties?

Neuroscience has already shown that everyone uses both sides of the brain when performing any task. And while certain patterns of brain activity have sometimes been linked to artistic or logical thinking, it doesn’t really explain who is good at what – and why.

22 year-old Melanie R. shares about living with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder which used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder), being bullied, having a perpetrator who is female, integrating her "alters" and Sensory Integration Disorder.

A "Saturday Night Live" skit, portraying heroin as an over-the-counter medication, in a classic tongue-in-cheek style, has drawn criticism from consumers and industry members alike. Some 9,000 people have signed a Change.org petition demanding SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels issue an apology. Here's a roundup of what people are saying.